Hot (lukewarm?) take: The first step in fixing the US’s problem with firearm-related violence should not be banning firearms (background checks etc already exist), but should instead be taking measures to prevent people getting into situations where randomly shooting people is seen as a logical choice, such as some form of universal income/healthcare (not gonna argue specifics here because literally anything would be better than our current state of affairs), and a better framework for both understanding and assisting with mental health. Firearm training should definitely also be a requirement.
Unfortunately, if I did somehow become president, I’d bet “President 0x30507DE was found dead in a barrel with 3 gunshot wounds to the back of the head. His death was ruled a suicide.” would be the headlines within about 2 weeks.
Fucking exactly this. We have levels of corruption, inequality, poverty, etc on par with countries like Brazil but our violence stats are compared with countries like Norway.
Nobody should be okay with taking away personal defense options when every day we see corrupt, inept, and abusive police officers with guns that we should apparently depend on instead of ourselves with guns. It’s absurd.
Body cams are gonna go a ways toward annoying the shit bags, as well as exonerating the good ones from some of the spurious shit.
But arming everyone is going to fix none of the problems with cops as they are now. You draw on a cop and you get alllll the gun-toting pros after you real fast if you live long enough. That’s not a solution. Asshole cop or not, the response to anything - unless it’s your compliance - is an escalation. That makes bad cops worse and maybe you dead, and those are the opposite of our goals.
Hot (lukewarm?) take: The first step in fixing the US’s problem with firearm-related violence should not be banning firearms (background checks etc already exist), but should instead be taking measures to prevent people getting into situations where randomly shooting people is seen as a logical choice, such as some form of universal income/healthcare (not gonna argue specifics here because literally anything would be better than our current state of affairs), and a better framework for both understanding and assisting with mental health. Firearm training should definitely also be a requirement.
Unfortunately, if I did somehow become president, I’d bet “President 0x30507DE was found dead in a barrel with 3 gunshot wounds to the back of the head. His death was ruled a suicide.” would be the headlines within about 2 weeks.
Fucking exactly this. We have levels of corruption, inequality, poverty, etc on par with countries like Brazil but our violence stats are compared with countries like Norway.
Nobody should be okay with taking away personal defense options when every day we see corrupt, inept, and abusive police officers with guns that we should apparently depend on instead of ourselves with guns. It’s absurd.
There’s two things wrong with American cops.
Rejecting cops who test as shit bags
Supporting cops who test as not shit bags
Body cams are gonna go a ways toward annoying the shit bags, as well as exonerating the good ones from some of the spurious shit.
But arming everyone is going to fix none of the problems with cops as they are now. You draw on a cop and you get alllll the gun-toting pros after you real fast if you live long enough. That’s not a solution. Asshole cop or not, the response to anything - unless it’s your compliance - is an escalation. That makes bad cops worse and maybe you dead, and those are the opposite of our goals.
Yeah, under late stage capitalism we have too many people with shit lives and nothing to loose.
That isn’t a very good state of things.